Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To approach and speak to, especially aggressively or insistently, as with a demand or request.
- transitive verb To approach and speak to with the intent of having sex.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of accosting; address; salutation.
- To come side by side or face to face with; draw near; approach; make up to.
- To speak to; address.
- To border on; adjoin.
- To adjoin; be adjacent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To adjoin; to lie alongside.
- noun rare Address; greeting.
- transitive verb obsolete To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
- transitive verb Archaic To approach; to make up to.
- transitive verb To speak to first; to address; to greet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
- verb transitive, obsolete To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
- verb transitive, obsolete To approach; to come up to.
- verb transitive To speak to first; to address; to greet.
- verb intransitive, obsolete To adjoin; to lie alongside.
- verb To
solicit sexually. - noun rare
Address ;greeting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb approach with an offer of sexual favors
- verb speak to someone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board her, woo her, assail her.
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BTW, the first two definitions of 'accost' from dictionary. com:
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I accost strangers on airplanes to show them how dandy it is to load thousands of pages including this newspaper onto something the size of a shirt cardboard.
The Joy of Reading 'Pinocchio'—On Paper Scott Simon 2011
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Sorry to accost you, but there's something I felt I should tell you, she said, with a concerned expression.
Gay Dad 2011
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Use private security goons to accost students (who were not, as predicted, permitted to speak);
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Well, actually, I chose not to accost people during their dinner, but I did end up asking about 300 people both inside education and outside education what they thought the purpose of public education was.
Heather Wolpert-Gawron: What Is the Purpose of Public Education? Heather Wolpert-Gawron 2010
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We also spotted a SUSPICIOUSLY PALE young lady applying for employment, but she MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED before we could accost her!
Stuff We Did On Our Vacation, Part One; Or, A Pictorial Essay on Vampire Habitats 2010
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Characterizing Jews as cerebral nomads, submissive and victimized by nature, he almost seems to hate and accost them as a means to elicit their retaliation.
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They saw him slouch for'ard after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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But I would daresay that most of us would not go accost a stranger at a party or even someone who knows us well with endless accounts of our kids stories (a blog doesnt count cause you dont have to read it) without so much as a ‘So whats going on in your life?’. toyfoto Said,
ramyeon commented on the word accost
Good Mistress Mary Accost.
December 5, 2010